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I chenged some restarting options in safe mode so I check the blue screen. Yip get one straight after I log in. Raving about a device driver.

I found the WAV2008 under one of the users there when logging into her profile. However it rebooted before i could delete it. I will go into safe mode and navigate to to her profile and delete the folder.

Any other suggestions?

Last edited by Cider; August 7th, 2008 at 10:49 AM.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.Albert Einstein

Do you have any linux or bsd live cds around? Try booting up a live cd and access your windows files from there without having to worry about your computer restarting. You can also access the internet and use a malware-scan from the live cd. Live cd's are very useful things to have around.

Well, I don't know what C:\Saw is talking about: don't know what online scanners work under linux.

I usually use linux to access the drive to remove files/folders or edit them when windows tells me I can't.

If you can log in in safe mode then why not run Ad-Aware and AVG in safe mode?

( if you don't have them, start safe-mode with networking and get them )

Have a friend who just had Windows Antivirus 2008 and Antispywarecheck ( both apparently loaded by Zlob ) amongst other things, and was restricted from booting into safe mode. Ad-Aware and AVG in safe-mode got rid of most and now he is in normal mode running an on-line scanner
( http://housecall.trendmicro.com )

Getting back to booting a CD:
You can use a bootable linux to modify the boot.ini file to boot into safe mode.
Assuming this is XP, The last lines of the file should look something like this:[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

add to the end of the last line so it looks like:[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /safeboot:minimal

( or /safeboot:network for networking enabled )

Just remember to change it back or you will never boot to normal mode again!

( he was also locked out of C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\msconfig.exe
you can use that to start or stop safe mode boot, edit the boot.ini file, etc. You must be an administrator to use that tool. )

One might also consider downloading SP3 and manually reinstalling it if the computer was really FUBARed.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by IKnowNot; June 20th, 2008 at 06:18 PM.

" And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be" --Miguel Cervantes

Live CD

You can find plenty of plugins for BartPE, including antivirus and spyware programs you can run directly from the windows live cd. If that fails, you can always recover your files with the liveCD and start from scratch.